Re: microforms: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Caroline Dean Stephen Clark 04 Dec 2001 13:24 UTC

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: microforms: On a lighter note as the holidays approach
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:59:38 +0200
From: "Dean, CE, Caroline, Miss" <caroline@uctlib.uct.ac.za>
Reply-To: caroline@uctlib.uct.ac.za
Organization: University of Cape Town

Are there any other ideas on how to use redundant CDs? They make
beautiful clocks, but one can only have so many clocks.
Caroline Dean

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: microforms: On a lighter note as the holidays approach
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:11:49 -0600
> From: Ed Perry <Ed.Perry@uregina.ca>
>
>
> HMMMMMMM!  I once suggested to Chris Pooley at Silver Platter that they
> start mounting redundant cd s on handles, and giving them away at
> conferences as pizza cutters.  Maybe the same thing with film reels for
> cutting lasagna?
>
> Ed Perry
>
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:51:22 -0500 Karen Nadeski <knadeski@cslib.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any ideas how to use old metal microfilm reels during
> > the holiday season?
> >
> > We currently have a project underway to move all our film on metal
> > reels to plastic ones and it occurred to me that some craft-oriented
> > people might have already seen possibilities for these metal reels.
> > Someone has suggested spray painting them and using them as tree
> > ornaments, but this sounds fairly mundane to me.
> >
> > Throwing this out on a Thursday instead of a Friday this week.
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Karen Nadeski
> >
> > Project Librarian, Connecticut Newspaper Project
> > Connecticut State Library
> > 231 Capitol Ave.
> > Hartford, CT  06106-1537
>
> Ed Perry
> Engineering/PAS Librarian
> University of Regina Library
> Regina, Saskatchewan
> Canada    S4S 0A2
> Phone:  306-585-5109
> Fax:  306-586-9862
> E-Mail:  Ed.Perry@uregina.ca

Caroline Dean (Miss)
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